Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Brazil and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Seeds to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eddi Front,
DJ Sneak,
the Human League,
Japan,
Procol Harum,
Schoolly D,
Charles Mingus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
The Sound,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Soft Cell,
Leonard Cohen,
Ituana,
Derrick May,
Hardrive,
Warren Ellis,
Camberwell Now,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronnie Foster,
Mandrill,
the Sonics,
Bill Near,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crime,
Angry Samoans,
the Swans,
Au Pairs,
Audionom,
The Music Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Smoke,
Inner City,
The Barracudas,
Kaleidoscope,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Morten Harket,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moby Grape,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roxette,
The Walker Brothers,
Faraquet,
Anakelly,
Excepter,
The Star Department,
The Wake,
Underground Resistance,
AZ,
The Fall,
Janne Schatter,
Soul Sonic Force,
UT,
Sun City Girls,
Robert Wyatt,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.